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GAS'E FOR SECONDARY ELECTRIC CLOCKS. No. 350,435. Patented Oct. 5, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. HUSSEY, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

CASE FOR SECONDARY ELECTRIC CLOCKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,435, dated October 5, 1886.

Application filed July l, 1886. Serial No. 206,777. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. HUssEY, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Electric Clocks, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement particularly relates to clocks in which time is caused to be indicated by electricity, and applies particularly to the cases in which such clocks are contained.

I will describe in detail an electric clock embodying my improvement, and then point out the novel features in a claim.

In the accompmnying drawings, Figure l is an electric clock embodying my improvement, the case being open. Fig. 2 is a perspective view thereof, the case being closed and a portion thereof being broken away to disclose certain parts.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures.

A A designate two portions of a clock-case, which are hinged together, as at a. Each of the portions is hollow. The portion A constitutes the front of the case and the portion A the back thereof. The portion A is provided upon its front side with a dial, a. The dial-plate is rigidly allixed to the case.

B designate electrical apparatus adapted to be operated periodically to indicate time upon the dial a. As shown, said apparatus is cured to a plate, Z), which in turn is rigidly alfixed to the rear side of the dial-plate. It is therefore apparent that when the portion A of the case is raised up the apparatus 13 will be carried with it, and access may be readily had to said apparatus, if desirable. By utilizing the dial-plate as a support for the apparatus 13 the necessity for any independent sup- 40 port for the said apparatus is avoided.

The apparatus B consists, essentially, of a train of time-wheels, If, actuated from an electro-inagnet, Z)".

G desi gnatcs circuitwires extendin g between the electromagnet I) and contact-pieces D,

mounted, as shown, upon a wooden block, (I, secured to the plate I). The portion A of the case has a closed back, and is of sufficient depth to admit of the portions A A being closed without the apparatus B coming in contact with the back of the portion A.

J designates contact-pieces atlixed to the back 01' the portion A, inside the latter. Gircuitavires j extend i'rontsaid contact-pieces to binding-posts j, located outside the ease. \Vhen the portions A A are closed together, the contact-pieces l) and J will be brought into i contact, and an electrical circuit will thus be in an electric clock, the con binalion, with time mechanism, of a case composed of two portions hinged together, a time-dial secured in one of said portions and having said time mechanism secured to it, contact-pieces in said portiomalso supported by the dial, contactpieees in the other portion of the case so arranged that when said case is closed the contact-pieces will be brought together, and conducting-wires, substantially as specified.

O. A. H USSEY.

Witnesses:

D. H. DEIsOOLL', Jos. R. BOWEN. 

